hannah weber foster the coquette

Eliza is young, beautiful, and charming.

She does not want to settle down into marriage yet, preferring to enjoy her freedom.

The Major is a dashing and handsome man who captivates Eliza. He is also completely disreputable and manipulative, planning to never marry Eliza but insisting on keeping her around because of his attraction to her.

Mr. Boyer falls in love with Eliza, but seems not to care for her actual nature. He is nervous about her coquettish ways, and once he suspects she is not virtuous, calls off their tentative engagement and marries another woman. He is very moral, but also critical and rather dull.

Lucy is Eliza's best friend and confidant, but often lectures, censures, or condemns her friend, all in the name of protecting her virtue. She marries a loving man in the same social class.

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new england in the 1780s during the immediate Post-American Revolution/New Nation period

hannah weber foster

A woman who flirts